Phillips, Kalvin Mark (Kalvin)
2014-Current
(Leeds Player Details)(Player Details)
Midfield
Born: Wortley, Leeds, Yorkshire: 02-12-1995
Debut: Wolverhampton Wanderers (a): 06-04-2015
Height & Weight: 5ft 10" 11st 1lb (2014)
Phillips was born in Wortley and joined Leeds at the age of seven and progressed as an under-fifteen through Wortley FC and
for a short while at Farsley Celtic. He attended the Farnley Academy and graduated in 2012. He continued through the Leeds United
youth teams and signed his first professional contract in the summer of 2014, when he signed a one year contract. He became one of
Neil Redfearn's brightest stars along with Alex Mowatt, Chris Dawson and Lewis Cook and several others as they progressed through
the Academy Under-Eighteen team and on to first team recognition. He became captain of that team and then the Under-Twenty-One
Development Squad. In the 2013-14 season he scored four goals in thirteen starts for the Under-Eighteens and twice in nine starts
and five from the bench with the Under-Twenty-One Professional Development side. In the 2014-15 season he scored in the only
Under-Eighteen game he played and scored six in twenty-one starts and two more as a substitute with the Under-Twenty-One
Professional Development side. He was first called up to the first team squad on 4th January 2015 for the F.A. Cup Third Round tie
with Sunderland at the Stadium of Light but had to settle for being unused on the bench. He was then called up for two consecutive
League games at Wigan Athletic on 7th March 2015 and a week later for the home game with Nottingham Forest, and in both games
remained unused on the bench. Then once more he was unused on 4th April 2015 for the home 0-3 defeat by Blackburn Rovers, but
two days later, on Easter Monday he was picked for the starting line-up against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux and he played
a full game, as United went down 3-4. He was retained for the following fixture at home to Cardiff City, and he scored the Leeds goal
in the seventeenth minute, before giving way to Steve Morison in the sixty-fourth minute. He was one of the unused substitutes in each
of the final four games of the season at home to Norwich City, at Charlton Athletic and Sheffield Wednesday and the final game at
home to Rotherham United. He was offered an improved contract on 13th May 2015, after breaking into the first team and on 5th June
2015 he signed a new two-year contract with the club. While often included in the first team squad in the 2015-16 season, he spent
much of the time on the bench, with only a few minutes action to show for his time there. After being unused for the first two fixtures he
was given full games in the next three games in the 0-0 draw at Reading on 16th August 2015, in the 2-2 draw at Bristol City on 19th
August and the 1-1 draw at home to Sheffield Wednesday on 22nd August 2015 but that was to be all the games that he started in the
season. He then had a few games as a substitute where he got twelve minutes in total in five games, as he came on in the eighty-sixth
minute of the 1-1 draw at Fulham on 21st October 2015 for Stuart Dallas, followed by entering the games after eighty-seven minutes in
the 1-1 draw at Bolton Wanderers for Lewis Cook on 24th October 2015 and for Alex Mowatt in the 1-0 win over Cardiff City at home
on 3rd November 2015. He then came on as an eighty-ninth minute substitue in two games, for Stuart Dallas in the 1-0 home win over
Preston North End on 20th December 2015 and for Sam Byram in the 2-2 home draw with Derby County on 29th December 2015. He
was a little more fortunate with his two remaining appearances as he came on for Alex Mowatt in the sixtieth minute in the 1-2 loss at
Ipswich Town on 12th January 2016 and for Tomani Diagouraga in the sixty-sixth minuteof a 3-2 home win over Reading on 16th April
2016. He was unused on the bench eighteen times in the League and once in the League Cup, while for the Under-Twenty-Ones he
scored once in seventeen starts. On 17th June 2016 it was reported that Phillips had agreed a new three year contract. He was given
the number twenty-three jersey for the 2016-17 season. After being an unused substitute in the opening game of the season, he
featured in the squad and after starting in the League Cup at Fleetwood Town on 10th August 2016, at home to Fulham six days later
and at home to Huddersfield Town on 10th September 2016, he had also played the role of a used substitute in all other games and
he notched his only goal of the season in a 1-3 defeat at Nottingham Forest on 27th August 2016. He then started a good run of thirteen
League starts which ran from the 2-0 win at Cardiff City on 17th September 2016 through to the 0-2 defeat at Brighton and Hove Albion
on 9th December 2016, but he was also on the bench before being called into action in the two League Cup games at home to Norwich
City and against Liverpool at Anfield in that period. He then served his one match suspension before starting the next thrss games, but
after that he had a lean spell, starting twice, being a used substitute twice and an unused one five times but being out of the team totally
for four games before being recalled for the visit to Craven Cottage to face Fulham on 7th March 2017. He picked up two yellow cards
and was sent off in the eighty-ninth minute, which saw him miss the next two games before coming on as a substitute at Reading on 1st
April 2017 and subsequently starting the next five before twice being a late substitute in the final two games.Throughout the season
there had been a battle between Phillips, Liam Bridcutt, Ronaldo Vieira and Eunan O'Kane for the two defensive midfield spots and he
finished the season starting twenty-three and being a used substitute ten times in League games, but also started two F.A. Cup Ties
and made two starts and three off the bench in the League Cup. He was a regular in midfield in the 2017-18 season. He started thirty-six
League games and came on as a substitite in five more and was twice unused on the bench. The only games that he was not on the
teamsheet was the three he missed through suspension, on 31st October at home to Derby County for an accumulation of yellow cards
and then a two game suspension, at Hull City, on 30th January 2018 and at home to Cardiff City on 3rd February 2018 for a second
similar offence. He also found the net more regularly, scoring seven in the League for the season. He started with a brace on the opening
day of the season at Bolton Wanderers on 6th August 2017 when he opened the scoring in the seventh minute and then gave Leeds a
3-1 lead three minutes before the interval in a fine 3-2 win. His third came when he gave Leeds a 2-0 lead after thirty-five minutes in a
5-0 home win over Burton Albion on 9th September 2017. The fourth soon followe in a 3-2 home win over Ipswich Town on 23rd
September 2017 when he gave his team a 2-1 lead after thirty-two minutes. He took his tally for the season to five in a 1-2 defeat at the
hands of Sheffield United at Elland Road on 27th October 2017, when his goal in the thirty-fourth minute drew Leeds level at 1-1. He did
not add to that tally until the final two games of the season, when he gave Leeds the lead when he opened the scoring six miinutes
before half time in a 1-2 defeat by Norwich City at Carrow Road on 28th April 2018 and then in the final game of the season in a 2-0
home win over Queens Park Rangers he got his seventh for the season two minutes after the interval with United's second. He also
played a full game in the 1-2 defeat by Newport County in the F.A. Cup on 7th January 2018 and he also started in the 1-3 defeat by
Leicester City in the Fourth Round of the League Cup on 24th October 2017 after being an unused substitute in the first three rounds
of that competition.With the advent of Marcelo Bielsa, he became one of the vital cogs in his team and was even mentioned for England
honours as he displayed fine form in the early months of the 2018-19 season which saw him maintain an ever-present record in the first
thirteen League and two League Cup games, which saw him play his one hundredth Leeds game at Swansea City on 21st August 2018.